Global As part of global efforts to promote efficient lighting, United Nations Environment Programme with the support of the GEF Earth Fund, Philips Lighting and OSRAM GmbH has established the initiative. The initiative seeks to ...
Intematix introduces its XR Series of red nitride phosphors for use in extending the color spectrum of LEDs.XR brings Intematix's total number of long wavelength phosphor offerings to six. Long wavelength phosphors play a central role in ...
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There is no single rare earth element market. Instead, the rare earth universe is made up of four or five distinct "critical rare earth" markets that should be the focus for investors today. Even with new mine supply and refining capacity ...
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Ambient: The surrounding light level in a given area. It is also the temperature in which a LED light source is expected to operate in. Referring to light, it is the light given off by the Sun, Moon, other light fixtures nearby or even ...
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White LED with high light efficiency, long life, energy saving, environmental protection and other significant advantages of green lighting and information display has broad application prospects in the field. At present, the core material ...
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White light There are two primary ways of producing white light-emitting diodes (WLEDs), LEDs that generate high-intensity white light. One is to use individual LEDs that emit three primary colors— red, green, and blue — and ...
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Germany increases focus on infrastructure,LED lighting 26 Jun Germany has invested in SSL in automobiles and street lights,and now broader investments are being encouraged to build a larger SSL manufacturing base.Hella research says LED ...
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The rare earths business isn't unlike a Formula One race, according to Carolyn Dennis, vice-president and senior analyst with Dundee Capital Markets. Companies are speeding to reach production and find strategic partners to grease the ...
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While growth in the LED industry came initially from small display applications and was furthered by LCD display applications, lower-than-expected adoption of LEDs in the TV market and the entry of several new players (mostly from Asia) in ...
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The color rendering index (CRI) has been used to compare fluorescent and HID lamps for over 40 years, but the International Commission on Illumination (CIE) does not recommend its use with white light LEDs. A new metric is under ...
With the LED TV backlight market slowing, and the general lighting market yet to take off, LED makers are looking to all sorts of innovative ways to improve cost and performance to drive adoption — from disruptive new technologies to ...
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Back in 1960 Electronics Weekly was born into a ferment of III-V semiconductor research that within two years would produce the first practical LED. In 1960 Dr Nick Holonyak of General Electric was developing an unusual material,GaAsP,as ...
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The market for phosphors used in high-brightness LEDs is set to grow rapidly as solid-state lighting becomes a mainstream technology,and reach $1 billion by 2015. That is the prediction from analysts at France-based Yole ...
Optimized for efficacy and supported by the industry-leading forward voltage of 2.7V and the lowest thermal resistance of 3 Kelvin per watt, LUXEON T allows designers to achieve the highest possible system efficacy and the flexibility to ...
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Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "LED Lighting - Key Patent Analysis: Remote Phosphor" report to their offering. LEDs, which are semi-conductor devices that convert electricity into light by the properties of ...
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